[xienze]

> wait until the same engineer can do the work for 1/3rd the cost from his own country, especially when everyone in the team is remote.

It’s not quite as easy as it seems, believe me software companies have been trying to pull this off for decades. I’ve been around situations where a US team was offshored and returned again because the results were so dreadful.

What people forget is that the folks who actually make it here are the absolute cream of the crop. There are not a billion Indians just like the super talented one you’ve worked with at your office. And that’s not even getting into timezone and communication problems.

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>It’s not quite as easy as it seems, believe me software companies have been trying to pull this off for decades. I’ve been around situations where a US team was offshored and returned again because the results were so dreadful

>What people forget is that the folks who actually make it here are the absolute cream of the crop.

You know a good way to reverse this trend, though? Force all those people to take all the skills they've learned back to their home countries.

I work at a Big-N and there are many teams that are majority non-citiens. If they're forced to leave the US, do you think the company will try to replace them with Americans, or just move the team?

[SpicyLemonZest]

What you're saying is certainly true, which is why people who already have a visa were exempted from the order. (Some may choose to leave because of the uncertainty, of course, but that would be true for any immigration reform.)